The Craftery House

The Craftery House updated their business hours.

The Craftery House updated their business hours.

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers and singers of song” - PAM BROWN

Happy Father’s Day 💙

*Custom mugs made with so much love and excitement from our little artists to their dads*

Recycled our Easter eggs and made baby birds in a nest. This was a great craft to get kids doing all the things they love (painting, cutting, gluing & coloring)!

Happy Mother’s Day!
We made a homemade lemon sugar scrub to make mom feel luxurious, complete with personalized labels.

Scrubs are so beneficial and this one is all natural so no harsh chemicals leaving your skin, smooth and polished.

With summer just around the corner we often have a build up of bug spray, sunscreen and well...sweat! Sugar is a wonderful exfoliant to get rid of those chemicals and your dead skin cells while the lemon adds nourishing vitamins and the coconut oil replenishes moisture back in.

Hope you enjoy!

Lemon Sugar Scrub
1 cup sugar
1/4 coconut oil
Juice from 1/2 a fresh lemon
Lemon zest
2-3 drops of good Lemon essential oil (optional)

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Norooz! Below is some history of this beautiful holiday.

Nowruz (pronounced no-rooz) is a combination of two Persian words. The first word “now” means new and the second word “ruz” means day; together they mean “New Day.” Nowruz is the name for the celebrations that observe the New Year for many Persian and Central Asian communities. The exact beginning of the New Year occurs when the season changes from winter to spring on the vernal equinox, which usually happens on 20 or 21 March each year.

The festivities of Nowruz reflect the renewal of the Earth that occurs with the coming of spring. Activities that celebrate the arrival of Nowruz share many similarities with other spring festivals such as Easter.

Nowruz is a time for family and friends to gather and celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Children have a fourteen-day vacation from school, and most adults do not work during the Nowruz festivities. Throughout the holiday period friends and family gather at each other’s houses for meals and conversation. Preparing for Nowruz starts a few weeks prior to the New Year with a traditional spring cleaning of the home. At this time it is also customary to purchase new clothing for the family and new furniture for the home.

Haft-Seen Table: The Table of Seven S’s
The most important activity in the celebration of Nowruz is making the haft-seen table. Haft is the Persian word for the number seven and seen is the Persian word for the letter S. Literally, the haft-seen table means a “table of seven things that start with the letter S’. Creating the haft-seen table is a family activity that begins by spreading a special family cloth on the table. Next the table is set with the seven S items. Here are some of the items and what they symbolize:

Sumac (crushed spice of berries): For the sunrise and the spice of life
Senjed (sweet dry fruit of the lotus tree): For love and affection
Serkeh (vinegar): For patience and age
Seeb (apples): For health and beauty
Sir (garlic): For good health
Samanu (wheat pudding): For fertility and the sweetness of life
Sabzeh (sprouted wheat grass): For rebirth and renewal.

So proud of these little artists 💙 I love doing these step by step paintings with my preschoolers and seeing how unique they all turn out.

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Merry Christmas to you and yours ♥️

Made by her tiny little 11 month old hands 🎄🥰

Give a gift they’ll use they say 😉 kids made some cute wine charms for mom and dad 🥂 thanks for the fun idea

Wishing our friends and TCH families a warm and happy first night of Hanukkah 🕎💙

Wrapped yarn Christmas tree ornament craft.

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚍, 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢.

Picture day was a success! And these DIY popsicle school bus picture frames turned out so cute to go along with them 😍

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Who else agrees? Happy first day of 𝔽𝔸𝕃𝕃 🍂

RIP to this incredible pioneer. May her memory be a revolution ❤️

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The kids love making fairy bracelets! All you need is tape, scissors and nature 🌼🌿

Nature walk vases 🌿

Talking about the seasons today! Can’t believe we’ll be transitioning into Fall in almost a month.

Welcome {BACK}! We are thrilled to have our doors open again. Please note our new safety protocols we have in place during drop off/pick up. 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊

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Wishing you a safe holiday 🇺🇸

“Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor” - Lailah Gifty Akita

Public pools are closed, but its important to know that a child can drown even in shallow water. Always remember to drain any pool/tub when not in use.

CNN and 'Sesame Street' to host a town hall addressing racism

A great way to help start the conversation at home with your little ones.

cnn.com As anger and heartbreak have swept across America over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, CNN and Sesame Street are refocusing their second town hall to address racism.

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MOTHERCOULD

Such a fun idea for any kid!

🧽WIPEABLE COLORING BOARD🎨
Keep watching, there’s a car paint shop too 🚙🚗. I’ve been wanting to make a makeup board for my girls for the longest time 💄. I’ve seen them everywhere but noticed you could only paint them once. I covered the cardboard with tape and BAM, you can paint them over and over again🤩. It’s like giant erasable coloring pages! You can also clean up the areas you pained outside the lines. Makes it perfect for makeup corrections 💋😉. What would you draw for your little one?
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Find more recycle play ides on and 💚
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👉🏼YOU’LL NEED:
-Cardboard
-Pencil/pen
-Black marker
-Clear packing tape
-Scissors
-Paint
👉🏼INSTRUCTIONS:
1️⃣Draw a large scale of any shape you want on the cardboard using a pen or pencil
2️⃣Once you are happy with the drawing, trace it using a black marker
3️⃣Cover the cardboard with a layer of clear packing tape. Align them perfectly so that there aren’t ant open cracks. Secure the tape on the backside of the board
4️⃣Use paint, markers, crayons, anything you want to color with and you can wipe it off using a baby wipe or water on a paper towel

Super easy + fun sensory bins. Play dough recipe can be found on our blog, link in bio!